Megan's role in Leadership Class landed her the task of designing this year's Senior Class Float. Once she announced to the family that she was in charge, Spencer offered her his help, which she gladly accepted. Homecoming Floats are new to me. We had Spirit Week at my high school, but we never went to such great lengths as they do here. Homecoming Floats are a big deal in this town. The Theme this year was "Survival of the Fittest". Megan & Spencer sat down and brainstormed ideas until they finally came up with the one they chose. The concept was to create a larger than life football player standing near a goal post representing our school. On the bed of the float was paper mache helmets representing each team in our league. They did a good job of painting each helmet adding the schools mascot. The finished product of the scoreboard looked real. They poked white Christmas lights inside the boxes to create the numbers and the Seniors incorporated the #13 as much as they could seeing as they are the Class of 2013. It's hard to tell in the picture below but they added the same concept of using Christmas lights, red ones, to make the football player's eyes glow. Setting up the float was the hard part. The wind decided to pick up right when they were trying to get everything secured and so they had a difficult time with the player and the scoreboard. The Judges luckily started down at the Freshman Float which gave us just enough time to tie up loose ends. Luckily fate was on our side and everything stayed in tact during the judging, but shortly afterwards, our player fell over. So for the remainder of the night, our players head sat in front of him, which still looked pretty cool! The big announcement came during half time when they announced which class won the float competition, and luckily, it was the Seniors!!! I was very happy for them because they worked really hard on it. Kids showed up almost every evening for a week to help get everything built. Way to go Seniors!
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